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New Harvest
October 2012
On Sale: October 16, 2012
177 pages
ISBN: 0547913990
EAN: 9780547913995
Kindle: B008L4KTSK
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Non-Fiction Memoir
When he was three, in the early 1970s, Benjamin Anastas
found himself in his mother’s fringe-therapy group in
Massachusetts, a sign around his neck: Too Good to Be True.
The phrase haunted him through his life, even as he found
the literary acclaim he sought after his 1999 novel, An
Underachiever’s Diary, had made the smart set take notice.
Too Good to Be True is his deeply moving memoir of fathers
and sons, crushing debt and infidelity—and the first,
cautious steps taken toward piecing a life back together.
“It took a long time for me to admit I had failed,” Anastas
begins. Broke, his promising literary career evaporated,
he’s hounded by debt collectors as he tries to repair a life
ripped apart by the spectacular implosion of his marriage,
which ended when his pregnant wife left him for another man.
Had it all been too good to be true? Anastas’s fierce love
for his young son forces him to confront his own childhood,
fraught with mental illness and divorce. His father’s
disdain for money might have been in line with the ’70s
zeitgeist—but what does it mean when you’re dumping change
into a Coinstar machine, trying to scrounge enough to buy
your son a meal? Charged with rage and despair, humor and
hope, this unforgettable book is about losing one’s way and
finding it again, and the redemptive power of art.
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